I was driving earlier this morning through Ontario on my way to Buffalo for a flight, and the sky was clear and cloudless. It's a little on the chilly side up there in the Buffalo area (at least it was at 7am when I was on the road), but on the CBC News I heard [...]
Read More EPA, radiation, sunburn, sunlight, ultraviolet, UVA, UVB, UVCMy favorite Lebanese lighting design firm, .PSLAB out of Beirut, has just finished another interesting project – a wine bar/restaurant called Burgundy. I just heard from my pal Ramsi at the firm this morning, and I am excited to share the project images! From the .PSLAB press release: A lighting project for a wine bar/restaurant [...]
Read More Beirut, commercial, design, interior, Lebanon, Lighting Design, PSLAB, restaurant, retail, WORKS.PSLABI wish I had more pleasant news, but since my whole freaking life is on the internet anyway, I figure why not share! After a three year run, Mrs. JimOnLight.com and I have decided to head our own separate ways. Things work out sometimes, and other times they do not work out. This happened to [...]
Read More JimOnLight.com, Lighting LifeOne of the web's favorite goatee-wearing personalities, Travis Bedard, posted this amazing video of the We Love crowd doing a large Plastikman event – for those of you who don't know who Plastikman is, you need to fix that right away. (Plastikman is Richie Hawtin – one of the most referenced electronic musicians ever. He [...]
Read More art, concerts, electronic music, Events, lighting, Plastikman, Richie HawtinPartying with and photographing the dead is hard work, apparently! Last week, everyone's favorite zombie activist and lumen grabber Amanda Lynne Ballard (and official JimOnLight.com photographer) got some amazing lighting shots at the E3 party for Dead Rising 2. You have to check out this work, and definitely check out Amanda Lynne's Flickr stream. She [...]
Read More Amanda Lynne Ballard Photography, Dead Rising 2, E3, photographersI had a party recently. It was not at the Louvre. That's because I'm not a Nobel laureate laser-inventing genius. Gotta get on that. Anyway–here are your Monday links! Image snagged from Felber's Flickr stream. Thanks! The US Department of Energy is throwing money around in the interest of better phosphorescent OLED technology. (OLED-info) Prime opportunity [...]
Read More Jax's Link-o-ramaI just came across this product by my favorite Russian design studio, Art Lebedev Studios. The studio has designed this interesting USB hub – modeled after the idea of a prism splitting light into the colors of the rainbow: This thing is COOL! What I love almost more than Lebedev Studios products is their process [...]
Read More Accessories, Art Lebedev Studios, design, light up nerd toys, Spectrus, USB hubSo, the Federal Trade Commission (or the FTC, as we refer to it – or as Eminem says, "the FTC won't let me be, let me be me, so let me see…") has decided to add some "Lighting Facts" labels to lamps now. Check these babies out – hopefully you say "hey, those are lighting [...]
Read More consumer, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, labels, lighting factsWho's that crazy Monopoly-Man looking cat there?! Hey, that's Walther Nernst! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Walther Nernst! (25 June 1864 – 18 November 1941) You might recognize Walther Nernst from his pretty interesting lamp, (and get ready for a wacky creative name) the Nernst Burner: Hey, the above Nernst Lamp is only 0.5 amps! Sometimes history is [...]
Read More happy birthday, History, Nernst Electric Light, Walther NernstIt's a cold, foggy day in San Francisco, so I'm going to throw a bunch of sunshine on the grill (and by grill, I mean internet, naturally). Photo is from JimOnLight fab photog Amanda Lynne Ballard. New favorite holiday: Solar Day! (CleanTechnica) The US Air Force is one of the biggest purchasers of wind power [...]
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